{"id":33360,"count":2,"description":"Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada. It is part of the Reno\u2013Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 855 at the 2010 Census.\nVirginia City is one of the oldest established communities in Nevada. Folklore indicates that the town got its name from a man named James Finney who was nicknamed \"Old Virginy\". Finney was credited with discovering the Comstock Lode. His real name was James Fennimore, and he had fled his home state of Virginia after killing a man.\nLike many cities and towns in the state, Virginia City was a mining boomtown; it appeared virtually overnight as a result of the Comstock Lode silver strike of 1859.\nDuring its peak, Virginia City had a population of over 30,000 residents and was called the richest city in America. During the 20 years following the Comstock success \"about $400 million was taken out of the ground.\"\nWhen the Comstock Lode ended in 1898, the city's population declined sharply....","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/virginia-city\/","name":"Virginia City","slug":"virginia-city","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}